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...Jersey last autumn the plan received its first field test. Troops were not used, but lines of communication and Staffs were actually set up by the First and Second Army commands, to operate under War conditions...
Conductor Brico dealt with women who were eager but inexperienced. Nucleus of her organization was a small group of nine young players who wanted her advice last autumn for a radio program. Their talent impressed her. She visualized a big ladies' band that would be known as the New York Woman's Symphony Orchestra. With her dark eyes alight she went out on a hunt for more musicians, marched on the White House where she persuaded the President's wife to head her list of sponsors...
...TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter from the White House to A. F. of L.'s President William Green in December failed to mollify Labor...
Tycoon Bernstein lives in Hamburg with his wife and two children, plays golf often and well, visits the U. S. every spring and autumn for a month. Transatlantic competitors watched his maritime growth with envy, did not really begin to worry until three years ago when he decided to go into the passenger business. From his 14 ships, all named after Saxon castles, he chose three of the biggest and best, had them rebuilt as combined passenger & automobile transports in the New York-Antwerp trade, with stops at Southampton and Havre. The 16,000-ton Königstein was equipped...
...film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally displacing older systems. He sued three exhibitors, aiming behind them at the makers of their equipment (R.C.A. Photophone and Western Electric). A Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his claim. The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. Last autumn the Supreme Court refused to review the lower court's findings...